A trailer of Sailing A Sinking Sea, a feature length film by Olivia Wyatt which recently premiered at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.  It explores the lives of the Moken people, a small group of seafarers have kept their nomadic culture alive, along the coast of Myanmar and Thailand.

Sailing A Sinking Sea – Trailer from olivia wyatt on Vimeo.

More about the film from Olivia Wyatt:

Almost every single Moken survived the Tsunami of 2004, thanks to premonitions from their shamans and ancestral wisdom gained from generations of living intimately with the sea. 

Numbering less than 3,000 they are the nomads scattered throughout the Andaman Sea and the Mergui Archipelago of Thailand and Myanmar. 

Living symbiotically with the sea they have a relationship seamlessly integrated with one of the most powerful forces in nature that it has manifested in living myths.

In the wake of the tsunami, the Moken have come under unprecedented pressure to assimilate into the mainstream and the mainland.

This culture is evaporating and along with it their vast wisdom of the sea.The Moken, are a sea-faring nomadic group living upon the Andaman Sea spanning from Indonesia to Myanmar.

This feature-length film explores their mythology, language, and relationship with the sea.